Some cool breastfeeding facts

Found on: http://www.kellymom.com/writings/index.html

Did you know....

1.Human milk has over 300 ingredients, including interferon, white blood cells, antibacterial and antiviral agents, while formula has only 40 ingredients.

2.Human milk has been shown to kill cancer cells in a laboratory dish and has been used in oncology.

3. The human breast "custom-makes" antibodies to fight whatever pathogen the infant is exposed to in the environment.

4. Breast milk has been used to treat eye infections, ear infections, pimples, cold sores, and nail fungus and prevent infection in scrapes and scratches.

5. In some parts of the world, donated organs are bathed in breast milk for the protective factors.

6. There were 22 "significant" recalls of formula for potentially life-threatening situations.

7. Human milk lactoferrin is patented for use in killing E. Coli in the meat packing industry.

8. Donor milk is being used to treat malabsorption and short-gut syndromes, renal failure, inborn errors of metabolism, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, immunodeficiency diseases, burn cases, cardiac problems, and infectious diseases such as intractable diarrhea, gastroenteritis, infantile botulism, sepsis, pneumonia, and hemorrhagic conjuctivitis in both children and adults.

9. Adoptive moms, grandmothers, and yes, even men have been able to lactate for an infant.

As Thomas would say: " I'm a WEEEENA"

My Winning Picture!!!!

So this morning mommy got an email for Mommalicious Mamma's saying that 'I' (yes that's correct) 'I' won their Summer photo competition.
How cool am i? But let me not get a big head about this, i mean the other babies that entered were also very cute, anyone of them could have won it- HA HA HA but I DID!-
So this means that i have won the first of many contests to come...(as long as mommy doesn't enter me into those naffy beauty contests I'll be fine- please daddy, tell me u have my back on this one!!) because if i know anything about my mom, she will use anything to show off how good looking i am...
I don't know it's almost like she thinks she had some hand in my gorgeosity!( my new word- oxford dictionary will be calling soon)PHU-lease, i was the one doing all the hard work in the belly- i put in the hours!-ME!who do you think was up and busy working on my looks when mom was trying to sleep? HUH?! it was ME! the slacker was sleeping while i was busy!!! she dare not try take the glory with this one, i WILL fight for it, even if it means i must bite...oh yes, hold on, it doesn't take much to get me to bite, Wait for it... "CHOMP!" see i told you, any chance i get to sink these chompers into anything i take it!

So there you have it folks,as my friend Thomas always says: "I'M A WEEEENA!!!!"

All the things that have been keeping me busy

So i have been away for awhile because i have been very busy learning things...
i have learnt how to sit properly so now i don't roll all over the show and sit still and watch my Baby Einstein programs.

I have also learnt how to talk so mommy gets a big earful all day long, she is supposed to understand English... howcome she doesn't have a clue what I am saying when I keep saying LA LA LA LA LA all she responds with is : Yes Aidan LA LA LA LA, you such a clever boy! - YES! mom I know I'm a clever boy!! And they say mother's know everything... YEAH RIGHT! anyway that's that I can also say baba, dada,nun num(that is when I get food) I can also say ninganing which mom also has no clue what it means, but to be fair neither do I, I don't think, its just fun to say!

I can share now too, I learnt how to do that the other day, i like to share with Aimee, I have a bite of my biltong then i offer some to her, then i have more, then her again, she also shares with me... the other day she bought her bloody meat filled bone to me and left it there for me to chew on, when mommy realised it was Aimee's bone, she nearly flipped, naturally i thought it was funny when mom took it away from me and threw it outside and Aimee thought she was playing fetch and bought it back in...
I have also found a way of getting her to follow me when i'm in my walking ring,(which she normally runs and hides from because i chase her so much)i just drop a piece of my biltong in my walking ring seat and sit on it, then we go round in circles following each other, wow that is so much fun...

But man, have i been busy! not only mastering the sitting and talking, i have also learnt how to(well kinda) crawl,it just seems to take me forever to get from one place to the other and mom also sits and claps and says yay alot when i try,well forget it, i have also discovered that i can pull up and stand so now i have been 'cruising ' a bit it seems cool, but am i ever impatient to walk and run for real. That way i can play with Tyrone and Thomas and join them in running down the passage and not have to sit on moms lap- i can tell you how BOOORING that is!

But how cool is this, with all the standing and cruising i have been doing i had my first real ooops when i fell off the the small step into the pantry, now although i bit my tongue and bumped my head, it was mommy that nearly had a heart attack, (yes i did cry, but once mommy put me in the bath and i was surrounded by my toys i could have cared less)besides i think my bruise on my forehead looks kinda cool!
and i certainly think it impressed my little girlfriend, see aunty Candice had a baby on the 26th Oct- and she is my girlfriend! her name is Kyla- Lee and wow she is pretty, mommy said i must be gentle with her because she is small, and that when i touch her i must be soft with her Because of her soft baby skin...
anyway this is me signing off and saying sweet dreams to my girl! Mwah! ( yes mom that includes you too)